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and here the government has a major role because we give $1.4 billion to the government. we tell him. look, there is a set of conditions we want the transition and you have to understand that human's rights have to be republican respected listen. because he needs that money. >> i want to raise this issue. a lot of people are talking about al qaeda and jordon. >> you didn't get the memo that al qaeda is on the path to defeat. you have these folks on the march. you have the obama administration saying it is going to promote arms. a group that is sworn to our destruction and may end up in the hands of al qaeda as well. that is the real dirty secret here. whether it is benghazigate maybe elsewhere in the gult. gentleman i'm going to leave it there. thank you very much. i appreciate it very much. the tax man cometh january 1st. that is right. get this. every gain you make is going to get hit. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put ri
and here the government has a major role because we give $1.4 billion to the government. we tell him. look, there is a set of conditions we want the transition and you have to understand that human's rights have to be republican respected listen. because he needs that money. >> i want to raise this issue. a lot of people are talking about al qaeda and jordon. >> you didn't get the memo that al qaeda is on the path to defeat. you have these folks on the march. you have the obama...
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this is government dependency at its worst. here now is the story. political reporter from the daily caller and margie omara. margie, i have to go to you first. in some sense this is a bipartisan story. if you look at the evidence that's come out today and was reprinted, this starts with the bush administration, but it rolls up with the obama administration. why would we want taxpayer dollars to subsidize ads for what should be limited to an anti-poverty program but has become this grandiose public welfare dependency. >> well, a few reasons. first, when you look at food stamps it's actually lowered the poverty rate for children. a majority of snap recipients are children and seniors and the disabled. it's done a huge effort to make sure kids don't go hungry. we are not talking about -- we're talking about making sure kids get the food they need. a majority of americans support this proposal. they support -- they don't want to see food stamps be cut as a way to balance the budget. we tried the other approach of ko kond sengs, blame and denial. it may
this is government dependency at its worst. here now is the story. political reporter from the daily caller and margie omara. margie, i have to go to you first. in some sense this is a bipartisan story. if you look at the evidence that's come out today and was reprinted, this starts with the bush administration, but it rolls up with the obama administration. why would we want taxpayer dollars to subsidize ads for what should be limited to an anti-poverty program but has become this grandiose...
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the worst time to cut government spending? >> well most of this spending we've been doing lately is our transfers. and they're paying people for being poor. paying people for not working. i'm sure they appreciate the help. and it feels good to help them. but it doesn't get them out of poverty. it encourages -- discourages people from helping themselves. so the labor market's going to remain small. as long as we kind of act european with our help we're going to have a european labor market which is a small one. >> i think we are moving toward a european kind of economy in terms of austerity economics. if you look at what happened and what's happening in britain and spain and elsewhere, they have embarked upon deficit reduction. and what that has done is contract their economies when they still have very high unemployment, very high under utilization of a lot of resources that. means that their ratio of their debts to their total economies keeps on getting worse. if you want that kind of economy, that kind of austerity economics
the worst time to cut government spending? >> well most of this spending we've been doing lately is our transfers. and they're paying people for being poor. paying people for not working. i'm sure they appreciate the help. and it feels good to help them. but it doesn't get them out of poverty. it encourages -- discourages people from helping themselves. so the labor market's going to remain small. as long as we kind of act european with our help we're going to have a european labor market...
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but the new french government promised that its tax the rich policies would help the economy. why are we in the usa imitating failure? did you know that california and new york and hawaii are also poised to hit their richest people with a greater than 50% tax rate? isn't that great? emulate france. here now is jim pethokoukis of the american enterprise institute. jim, i thought we wanted to emulate success, not furl. >> i thought so, too. listen, the president wants to run an experiment and see how high we can crank up tax rates in this country without it hurting economic growth. they're already running it in europe, in france, in great britain. the entire european experiment here has been one of tax hike austerity. even though they focus on the spending cuts, you're talking about a high tax area raising taxes even higher. we're trying to to do the same thing here. >> least the brits have the humility to acknowledge their mistake. they took the rate from 40% 050%. millionaires left the island. now they're coming back and dropping it to 45%. at least the brits have some humilit
but the new french government promised that its tax the rich policies would help the economy. why are we in the usa imitating failure? did you know that california and new york and hawaii are also poised to hit their richest people with a greater than 50% tax rate? isn't that great? emulate france. here now is jim pethokoukis of the american enterprise institute. jim, i thought we wanted to emulate success, not furl. >> i thought so, too. listen, the president wants to run an experiment...